I don't blame Shero one bit, but I think he got a little over aggressive at the end. Murray was right and Jussi was right to stop gap for Sid. Morrow and Iggy might have been a little overkill but this is all easy to say with hindsight.

Pitts wrote:Its great to see that the Pens will be a drastically different team next year!

Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but I don't recall anyone from the team saying the roster would be drastically different. Even so, wouldn't you call losing Dupuis, Cooke, Morrow, Murray, Iginla, and Kennedy pretty different? It might not be the guys you wanted to see go, but that's going to create a good bit of room for turnover, particularly with holes on the first three lines.

But this is a fact: we just got one year older and a little slower at that position. The PK will not improve, at best it will degrade proportionally to however much quickness he loses, which will prolly be very slight.

Kovy27 wrote:It has been getting better...maybe. Ok, not really. Just throwing it out there. Just like Rossi's Letang to TO ****.

There's the issue. There was no Letang to TO stuff. Rossi mentioned that a source told him Letang wouldn't mind Toronto as a possible destination. It's a comment made in passing that had absolutely no bearing on anything outside of Letang saying a harmless comment via a source.

Rossi never once perpetuated a rumor that there was some kind of discussion about a trade. People took one comment he made and ran with it.

Kovy27 wrote:It has been getting better...maybe. Ok, not really. Just throwing it out there. Just like Rossi's Letang to TO ****.

There's the issue. There was no Letang to TO stuff. Rossi mentioned that a source told him Letang wouldn't mind Toronto as a possible destination. It's a comment made in passing that had absolutely no bearing on anything outside of Letang saying a harmless comment via a source.

Rossi never once perpetuated a rumor that there was some kind of discussion about a trade. People took one comment he made and ran with it.

I agree with your basis -- but as a journalist, he owes it to his readership to be more clear. He's very involved in Twitter, Facebook, blogging, etc., and all of these avenues generate a lot of discussion. It's very easy to take a tidbit of information and misread it, misinterpret it, misconstrue it, etc. to the point where it becomes a "rumors." Again, while Rossi may not be saying Letang is going to Toronto, he's suggesting it could be a possibility and not really dousing the flames when they spread. You never see credible journalists -- Molinari, LeBrun, Dreger, MacKenzie, etc. with similar situations, and the reason is that they are very selective with what they release to the public and how they go about releasing it in a way.

Pitts wrote:Its great to see that the Pens will be a drastically different team next year!

Maybe I'm completely wrong here, but I don't recall anyone from the team saying the roster would be drastically different. Even so, wouldn't you call losing Dupuis, Cooke, Morrow, Murray, Iginla, and Kennedy pretty different? It might not be the guys you wanted to see go, but that's going to create a good bit of room for turnover, particularly with holes on the first three lines.

I remember a Shero quote something about changing the team because he was upset. Any-hoo...I don't consider the rentals part of the change. They were only here for a few weeks. Kennedy sucked all year, so he doesn't really count either. It remains to be seen what happens with Dupuis and Cooke. But, I would like to see the team get younger. So far, everything has stayed pretty much the same.

But, as someone else said above, I really liked the team that ran through March. So maybe it really is a good thing.

Kovy27 wrote:It has been getting better...maybe. Ok, not really. Just throwing it out there. Just like Rossi's Letang to TO ****.

There's the issue. There was no Letang to TO stuff. Rossi mentioned that a source told him Letang wouldn't mind Toronto as a possible destination. It's a comment made in passing that had absolutely no bearing on anything outside of Letang saying a harmless comment via a source.

Rossi never once perpetuated a rumor that there was some kind of discussion about a trade. People took one comment he made and ran with it.

No, he said something like, Toronto appears to be a possible destination. That is starting a rumor.